From: "Joshua M. Clulow" <josh@sysmgr.org>
To: illumos-developer <developer@lists.illumos.org>
Subject: Re: [developer] A couple of kernel questions
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2024 13:12:39 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEwA5nLe+h8jpc+AUwmwX84knbg44QOg+HcROgPXDEf2S5ZR7Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <901d0892-8bfb-4dce-bc61-addad29ba79a@outstep.com>
On Wed, 17 Jul 2024 at 13:05, Lonnie Cumberland via illumos-developer
<developer@lists.illumos.org> wrote:
> Can the illumos kernel allow for VGA and Audio pass-through from a User Zone? I am trying to discover how it might be possible to pass the console to a Zone that might be running a guest Bhyve and some how work out to have the guest OS using the console instead to the Global Zone. This is not really the same as using zlogin in text mode but I do not have a complete picture in my mind on what might be, or not, achievable from the kernel perspective.
>
> I guess that this would be a similar question for GPU pass-through from a non-Global Zone.
This is not really something we have great support for today, and I
suspect depending on the GPU vendor, is likely to continue to present
challenges. For example, NVIDIA is not an open source friendly
vendor, but are obviously immensely popular in terms of deployed
hardware in the field.
There is some support for PCI pass-through in bhyve, as I understand
it; see pptadm(8). I don't believe it will be an easy turnkey
solution for the kind of desktop centric experience you're looking to
create.
Cheers.
--
Joshua M. Clulow
http://blog.sysmgr.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-07-17 20:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-07-17 13:28 Lonnie
2024-07-17 14:06 ` [developer] " Udo Grabowski (IMK)
2024-07-17 20:12 ` Lonnie Cumberland
2024-07-17 19:06 ` John Howard
2024-07-17 20:05 ` Lonnie Cumberland
2024-07-17 20:12 ` Joshua M. Clulow [this message]
2024-07-17 20:27 ` Till Wegmüller
2024-07-17 20:09 ` Joshua M. Clulow
2024-07-17 20:22 ` Lonnie Cumberland
2024-07-17 20:47 ` John Howard
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